Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
